After Busy Hurricane Season, FEMA May Be Forced to Give Back 2017 Overtime

posted by Sam Dorman -

6 months ago

The Federal Emergency Management Administration reportedly told its employees that some might have to pay back their overtime after hitting an annual earnings limit, the result of the extended hours required by 2017's unprecedented hurricane season.

The extended hours appeared to prompt FEMA — just after its administrator, Brock Long, said his staff was “tapped out” — to use a federal provision allowing agencies to take money from employees' future paychecks if they exceeded a ceiling on annual compensation.